Posts by Kathy

We are often asked to add the words “near me” to keywords on our clients websites. Unfortunately, those key words are irrelevant to Google search engines as they base “near me” on maps and GPS locations. However, as a small business owner, you need to capitalize on people who might look up your type of business with “near me” in the search query. For example, they might search “sporting goods stores near me”...

Every now and then, Steven and I get curious about something that we use every day and decide to find out more about it. One of the things we use when designing new websites is “temporary text” or Lorem Ipsum. Steven got curious one day and did some research to find out where this text comes from.

What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

We take website security very seriously and have installed WordFence Security on all of our webistes. While WordFence helps guard against most known attacks, there are still things you, our clients, need to remember. Never share your login or password with anyone. It is better to create a new user role for each person making changes to your website. Also, always use a strong password and don’t include the name of your website, your name, or “admin” in your user name or password.
We often talk to site owners who are surprised that their sites are targeted by attackers.

On January 12, 2016, Microsoft quit supporting Internet Explorer (IE) 8, 9 and 10. True, there are a few exceptions, IE 9 on Vista and Windows Server 2008, and IE 10 on Windows Server 2012 still live. But for most Windows users the time has come to switch to a new browser. The reason we are advising you about this issue is because we will no longer be supporting web design for Internet Explorer either. Our theory is that the time involved in finding fixes for IE when less than 20% of the population continues to use it, is unmanageable.
Most of the websites we have designed continue to work in Internet Explorer, but as time goes on, you may notice a break here and there. We wanted to let you know in case you get calls from clients/patients/customers or others using your websites. Some of the new features that we have installed in our most recent website design just aren’t displaying properly in IE. In particular, if you have Windows 7 and IE 11, you are going to start having issues.